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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114While reading an article about the \u201a\u00c4\u00f2Monster\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 Petition of 1680 by Mark Knights, I came across a reference to Daniel Coxe. He was a signer of the \u201a\u00c4\u00f2Monster\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 Petition, which meant he objected to the decision by Charles II to dissolve Parliament just before it was set to pass the Exclusion Act, which would have barred James Duke of York from becoming king, or anyone else belonging to the Catholic religion. This seems like a risky thing to do for someone who was \u201a\u00c4\u00faon the make,\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 as most historians describe Dr. Coxe.<\/p>\n
Perhaps this was the Dr. Coxe who was serving in the Parliamentary army during the Puritan Revolution in England. The army\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s general asked that Coxe be made a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1643, according to William J. Birken, who went on to write that Coxe was later to prove his medical ability to the college and became one of its most active fellows, and eventually its president in 1682.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n This sounds like our Dr. Daniel Coxe except for one small problem. Our Dr. Coxe was born around 1640 (he died an old man in 1730). So, this must have been someone else. The Dr. Coxe who governed West New Jersey is said to have been the son of Daniel Coxe of Stoke Newington, Gent., who was buried there in 1686. Could this other Dr. Coxe have been the father of the Governor?<\/p>\n West New Jersey’s Daniel Coxe, the real estate speculator, is also said to have been a physician and scientist. A Daniel Coxe was one of the first to study the effects of nicotine on animals. In 1679, he corresponded with John Locke, while Locke was in exile, on medical subjects like a cure for venereal disease. Locke even loaned him books, though I don\u201a\u00c4\u00f4t know whether they were medical or political books. In 1680, Daniel Coxe was elected to the Royal College of Physicians. This sounds like Daniel, Jr.<\/p>\n